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These goals aren't in tension. Merit comes from who you hire. Diversity comes from who you interview. Cast a wide net, give opportunities to diverse candidates,
by aluminum96 5y ago
These goals aren't in tension. Merit comes from who you hire. Diversity comes from who you interview. Cast a wide net, give opportunities to diverse candidates, and you'll end up right.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThis simply isn't true when the expectations are out of sync with the labor pool. For example, 90+% of programmers are male, so not all firms can meet a 50-50 gender balance. Top firms try, but that will pull from somewhere. The same goes for race/ethnicity.
- slowmovintarget 5y agoRight. This is the fallacy of assuming the cause of disparate outcomes occurs in the place where the outcome is measured. The causal factors, in this case, occur before the candidates even apply.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoThis is frequently proven wrong by actual numbers. Remember when ElectronConf was cancelled a few years back [1]? The process was completely open, and all judging was completely blind, and still there was a huge uproar when the accepted panels didn't match some folks' notions of what a diverse slate of speakers should be. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868
- stmfreak 5y agoBingo. Diversity begins in schools.